Hey All,
I have a friend who owns a tire and auto shop. he has an alignment machine that is, at least 15yrs. old. The company that he bought it from says that he cannot upgrade the (computer) system, and instead needs to purchase a whole new system. At a cost of 25,000-35K.
My question is: the computer that runs the system is nothing more than a desktop (with the dreaded beige case) housed in a black box. Couldn't I just pull the hard drive out of the system put it in a 'newer' (maybe 2 years old) system and everything work exatly the same albeit faster?
2nd part (although belongs in the component section, I will post it there also) the system has an old okidata dot matrix printer, hooked via LPT port. How can i hook up a new printer via USB.
The system is running Windows 98 on a Pentium II 300MHz a massive 64megs of sdram
Thanks Erik
I have a friend who owns a tire and auto shop. he has an alignment machine that is, at least 15yrs. old. The company that he bought it from says that he cannot upgrade the (computer) system, and instead needs to purchase a whole new system. At a cost of 25,000-35K.
My question is: the computer that runs the system is nothing more than a desktop (with the dreaded beige case) housed in a black box. Couldn't I just pull the hard drive out of the system put it in a 'newer' (maybe 2 years old) system and everything work exatly the same albeit faster?
2nd part (although belongs in the component section, I will post it there also) the system has an old okidata dot matrix printer, hooked via LPT port. How can i hook up a new printer via USB.
The system is running Windows 98 on a Pentium II 300MHz a massive 64megs of sdram
Thanks Erik